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General Support / I can't create transparent decals!
« on: June 09, 2008, 06:07:30 AM »
Im a lot good at pic editing so let me help...
Dragonfire since you have photoshop you can use alpha chanel as Mad say...
But keep in mind these things...
1)When you save it as *.TGA for example or other format please view the options in this format to include alpha chanel in saving...
2)alpha chanel is not just have or not trancparensy... He is a value from 0 to 255... So evry pixel exept three (Example : 255,255,255) color values have and for alpha (Example : 255,255,255,255)... This mean that alpha can be a lil or a more trancparent...So you must check what values RA2 requares from 0 to 255 to "consider" it as trancparent...
Get that?
So in Photoshop or any other program just make a image as object shape in alpha to see it only by shape...But again im not sure how must be tha alpha value...Try first only 0 and 255...For example if you use 127 you must see the disk half-trancparent(half-background half-disk)...But this may not work...Im not familiar with RA2 requrments...
To users that use different program : most programs support this so it must work fine in them...
Dragonfire in end case you can send it to me to do it...if you want....
Dragonfire since you have photoshop you can use alpha chanel as Mad say...
But keep in mind these things...
1)When you save it as *.TGA for example or other format please view the options in this format to include alpha chanel in saving...
2)alpha chanel is not just have or not trancparensy... He is a value from 0 to 255... So evry pixel exept three (Example : 255,255,255) color values have and for alpha (Example : 255,255,255,255)... This mean that alpha can be a lil or a more trancparent...So you must check what values RA2 requares from 0 to 255 to "consider" it as trancparent...
Get that?
So in Photoshop or any other program just make a image as object shape in alpha to see it only by shape...But again im not sure how must be tha alpha value...Try first only 0 and 255...For example if you use 127 you must see the disk half-trancparent(half-background half-disk)...But this may not work...Im not familiar with RA2 requrments...
To users that use different program : most programs support this so it must work fine in them...
Dragonfire in end case you can send it to me to do it...if you want....